Adjustable fishing-pole holder.



J. RASS. ADJUSTABLE FISHING POLE HOLDER. APPLIoATIoN FILED uns, 1912.

Patented Aug. 13,1912.

%IIIIIIIIHHI A ggggmml JOSEPH Rans, or SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK.

ADJUSTABLE FISHING-POLE HOLDER Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 13, 1912.

Application tiled January 5, 1912. Serial No. 669,641.

To all' whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH RAEs, a citizenof the United States, residing at Schenectady. inthe county of'Schenectady and State of New York, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Adjustable Fishing-Pole Holders, of which the followingis a specification.

acter which may be readily This invention relates to fishing rod holdersand particularly to that type which are adapted for boat use.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and efficient deviceof thisV charattached to the side of the boat andv wherein the bracketarm.may be readily adjusted to secure the roper inclination of the poleor to fix its horizontal adjustment, z'. e., the direction at which therod projects from the boat.

Further. bjects of this invention will appear asY the following specificdescription is read in connection with the accompanying drawing, whichforms a part of this and which application,

1s a s1de elevation.

Figure 1 Fig. 2 is a `vertical sectional view taken on the line v 2-2 ofFig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an edge elevation.

Referringmore particularly to the drawing, 1 re resents a yoke-shapedclamping member aving a headed clamping screw 2 threaded therein andprovided with a thumb wing 3 at its end. Formed integral Y with theclamping member 1 is a semil standard 7 which web 4. The Vstandard ishollow, as shown in Fig. 2 and is provided with a pair of shown at 10,to receive the corrugations or' circular web 4 having al plurality, ofperorations adapted to be engaged by the spring Vpressed locking pin 6carried by the is pivoted at 8 uponl the slots 9 in its sides for apurpose to be hereinafter described. The upper end of the4 standard 9 isserrated or corrugated, as

serrations 11 on a boss 12 which depends from the pole supportingbracket 13. In

lorder to hold the serrations of the boss 12 and the standard 7 inengagement with.

. f each other,

-boss and a bolt 14 is passed through the extends through the standardwhere it is surrounded by a spiral spring 15, one end of which engages ashoulder 16 and the opposite end of which rests upon a transverse end 17passed through the bolt and having its ends operating in the slots 9.The pin 17 acts to prevent the bolt from turning and at the same timeaffords a limiting stop for the spring 15. By raising the bracket 13against the tension of the spring, it may be readily turned uponthe/bolt 14 so as to place the same at a desined'angle to the clampingmember 1. The standard and bracket may also be adjusted,l to secure ltheproper inclination of' the pole or rod by removing the pin 6 from theapertures 5 and moving the standard over the web 4. The rear end of thebracket is upturned, as shown at 18 and a socket 19 is formed in its endto receive the 4butt of the rod while the forward end of the bracket 13is open or bifurcated, as shown at.20, to receive the handle of the rodadjacent the reel seat. Seated in the bifurcation of the bracket is aspring 21 which is bulged inwardly between its ends so as to roduce arestricted' neck 22, through which the handle must pass to beproperlyseated.

I Vfound to be necessary, the device as it is put on the market forsale, may include a spike or spear like member which may be driven intothe ground and which will carry a web similar to 4 in Fig.V 1. Thiswould permit the device to be used on shore as well as upon a boat, andin this instance, the pivot point 8 would be in the nature of a thumbscrew instead of a straight pivoted stud, as is shown in Fig. 2.

What is claimed is A device of the class described com rising a mountingdevice, a web thereon, aving a lurality of apertures therein, a standardivoted to the web, a spring pressed loc ing pin carried by the standardand adapted to engage the apertures 1n the web, a pole supportingbracket rotatably mounted upon the standard, said standard having laserrated head, a boss on the bracket having a serrated surface to engagethe serrated head on the/standard, a pivoted bolt passingv through. theboss and enterixng'the In lieszimony whereof I afxiy signs;-

r r4standard, a. sp1-mg surrounding the pivot- Lure in presence of twowitnesses.

bo1t`and hawmgone` end limited on the l standard, and 'a transverseinpassed,

5 through the end of thebolt an forming a Witnesses:

limiting st'op for the opposite end of the E.. EDMoNsToN, Jr., spring.V.'B. lHILLYARD.

JOSEPH RAE-s.

